✍️ Journalism Jobs and Media News Update ✍️ — September 26
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In this week’s journalism news roundup, we’ll look at The Guardian’s launch of its new digital Europe edition; The New York Times Sports section published for the last time; how reporting on and answering reader questions can boost traffic and subscriptions; X/Twitter’s plans to start charging all users; and how the BBC’s fact checkers separate themselves from the rest.
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The Guardian Launches Europe Edition
The Guardian has launched its digital Europe edition, which will apply the newspaper’s stamp of accuracy and authority to Europe-centric stories and trends. The Guardian, which already has UK, US, Australia and international editions, said that “European readers are now the Guardian’s most engaged audience group outside of the UK, with over 250 million page views from Europe last year (up 129% vs. 2016).” The newspaper also noted that an estimated 240 million people in Europe are proficient in reading and speaking English, according to the 2022 EF EPI Index, and will look to take advantage of that growing number.
The New York Times Sports Section Says Goodbye
Amid criticism from staffers, readers and the NewsGuild union, The New York Times has published its storied sports section for the last time. Following through on a move announced in July, the NYT will now rely on The Athletic for its sports coverage, of which the Times acquired last year for $550 million. Dozens of sports staffers and guild members marched through the Times offices last week and read the names of sports staffers in a vigil for a desk that had been a pillar of the newspaper for decades. NYT executives will have their hands full with their new acquisition, not only ingratiating some 400 staffers from The Athletic, but also turning around the $8 million it lost in the most recent quarter.
Give Readers a Say
Engaged journalism and social exchange theory can help local news boost subscriptions, according to a new study on curbing the decline of local news. Natalie Jomini Stroud, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and Emily Van Duyn, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, found that traffic and subscriptions increased when journalists reported on audience questions, stemming from improved relationships between newsrooms and their communities. The authors concluded that “Although the magnitude of the effect is unlikely to rescue local news… it does show that engaged journalism can move local news in the right direction — toward increasing their bottom line and improving relationships with the community.”
X/Twitter To Start Charging Users?
Next up is the news that all users of X could have to pay to use the platform, in an attempt to counter bots dominating the user experience. Speaking on a livestream with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Elon Musk said “We're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the system,” adding “Because a bot costs a fraction of a penny — call it a tenth of a penny — but even if it has to pay…a few dollars or something, the effective cost of bots is very high.”
Fact Checking At The BBC
And lastly, I found this RISJ interview with BBC senior reporter Daniel Rosney very insightful into the lengths fact checkers must go in order to verify stories and specific pieces of information. When Rosney was assigned to verify the death of Canadian teen rapper/social media personality Lil Tay, he thought it would take 30 minutes. As he began to read the flurry of tabloids and news organizations that were reporting her death based solely on a post on her Instagram account, he quickly realized that he needed to dig deeper. After 10 hours, Rosney was still skeptical, and it turns out that Lil Tay posted on her account the next day that the hoax was down to a third party. While dozens of outlets had to backtrack on their hasty reporting, Rosney and the BBC didn’t need to. That’s the abridged version, and I definitely recommend reading for the full account.